Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley kicks off a 22-city tour Nov. 28 with mostly new material and just a few Lady A tunes. Tickets for ‘The Driver’ tour go on sale Friday.

Jake Owen says Kenny Chesney’s the greatest guy he’s ever toured with and his goal one day is to sell out stadiums just like Kenny does.

Performing so late in his career, at 53, Garth Brooks says the gratitude’s bigger. As for 3-shows a night, he says, “it's like a muscle; the more you use it, the better shape it gets in.” Trisha Yearwood adds, “Garth wakes up like a puppy and goes 150 miles an hour until he just falls over.”